Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Constitutional. In Lewisburg, Ohio, John F. Lock won a 52-year battle to get his rural mailbox moved 1,056 ft. nearer his home after he proved that he had already walked 6,250 miles to pick up his mail...
...hills of eastern Kentucky, the fight between the Kentucky Utilities Co. and public power groups has been almost as bitter as the famed Hatfield-McCoy feud. For 13 years the rural electric cooperatives and the private power company have blocked each other's expansion in the courts and before the state Public Utilities Commission. As a result, customers suffered with poor service at high cost. Last week the feud finally ended. Kentucky Utilities had a precedent-setting, ten-year agreement with 15 local cooperatives to exchange generating and transmission facilities. And the generators were turned on in a brand...
Maryland's rural counties have done nothing yet to end segregation, but Baltimore city officials say they will end segregation in all of the city's 198 grade and high schools this month...
Migros now has 289 grocery stores-145 of them self-service and ten of them fancy supermarkets-as well as nine butcher shops, three clothing stores, and 70 sales trucks that service rural areas. And Migros has revolutionized other fields as well. In the Depression Duttweiler signed up a number of Swiss hotels, many of them half empty or near bankruptcy, in a plan to provide cheap vacation tours. His Hotel Plan, which offered eight-day, all-expense holidays for as little as $45, caught on quickly, bailed the hotels out, and last year grossed...
Natural Harmony. Even in the rural Midlands, where dowagers were somewhat affronted that the black artist should imagine Jesus as an African, discerning art-lovers were charmed by Sorgo's figures. One London critic thought that Songo might be leading a triumphant invasion of the Africans. And artists envied the harmony of spirit in his work. Said one: "If European artists manage to pull off this harmony, they reckon they're lucky. But with these boys it's natural...